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Best practices for building a perfect pitch

Onclusive

Welcome back to our blog series about building a perfect pitch and nurturing your media relationships! This article is all about best practices for pitching—based on our customers’ collective experience and wisdom. As we mentioned last week, the key to creating a relevant and compelling pitch is knowing your audience.

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Four Ways to Streamline the Pitching Process

Cision

Pitching is an integral part of the PR process and communicators are always looking for ways to build meaningful media relationships for themselves and their clients. Here are a few ways you can streamline your pitching process. Pitching to Canadian media? Plan Ahead for Earned Media Opportunities.

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Top Tips For Approaching Cybersecurity Media

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

The numbers back this up; a recent cybersecurity report from research firm ThoughtLab found that the average number of cyberattacks and data breaches increased by 15.1% However, monitoring the latest data security incident isn’t enough. Different data security reporters cover different verticals. from last year.

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The 22 Responsibilities of PR and What They Entail

Onclusive

PR professionals should create thoughtful, data-backed pitches, engage with reporters on social media, send swag (when appropriate), maintain relevant media lists, and manage all follow-through with reporters and journalists. Relationship building takes time. They may also be responsible for managing any outsourced content creators.

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New Challenges with Earned Media: PR Practitioners Insight in Report

Bianchi Biz Blog

The insights gained for the survey provided key details on the current earned media environment, highlighting the challenges faced in national, local, and trade media. Finding 2: National and top-tier media have become the hardest outlets in which to secure earned media, followed (closely) by local and then trade.

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5 Success Strategies For PR Pitching

ImPRessions - Crenshaw Communications

Successful media pitching in public relations has always relied on the combination of a good idea, well-timed and well-packaged to offer up to appropriate journalists. Many times, however, the factor that turns a pitch into a pitch-perfect placement is chutzpah! Tailor the pitch that way, and wonderful things can happen.

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Developing a powerful email pitch for a PR campaign

Presspage

Combining the powers of email marketing with an attention-grabbing PR pitch is a winning approach when it comes to major campaigns. A targeted email pitch allows you to reach a wide audience of journalists in an instant, whilst making sure it’s relevant to their ‘beat’ List segmentation done right. Final thoughts.